ELUCIDATE

ELUCIDATE: 

■ verb 
Make clear and comprehensible;Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear.

eg.He is here to elucidate the mystery surrounding her death.

CORRUGATED

CORRUGATED: 

■ Adj.
Shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges.

eg.The surface of the ocean was rippled and corrugated.

COTERIE

COTERIE: 

■ noun 
An exclusive circle of people with a common purpose. 

eg.A very small coterie formed within the science club because only a few of the students were interested specifically in genetics. 

MODISH

 MODISH:
■ Adj. 
In the current fashion or style.

eg.They also have a modish, edgy look to them which lends them an air of unfamiliar exoticism.

MENAGERIE

MENAGERIE: 
■ noun 
A collection of live animals for study or display.The facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition. 

eg. I felt like I lived in a menagerie because we had so many pets.

TIGHTWAD

TIGHTWAD: 
■ noun 
A miserly person. 

eg.Jill called Jack a tightwad because he never picked up the check.

TALISMAN

TALISMAN: 
■ noun
A trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease.

eg.He had a talisman, the use of which he would not divulge, saying the stone could speak for itself.

REEK

REEK:
■ verb
emit(odor)

eg.You will reek of garlic for days but it shouldn't matter if she loves you. 

LUCRATIVE

LUCRATIVE: 

■ Adj. 

Profitable; moneymaking; remunerative

eg. She signed a very lucrative contract with the basketball association.

LAUD

LAUD:

 ■ verb

 To give praise to; glorify.

eg. Lauded by the critics, he still isn't a household name.

LUCID

LUCID:

 ■ Adj.

Easily understood; intelligible;Capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner.

Clear.

eg.The essay was very lucidly written.

LUSTROUS

LUSTROUS:

 ■ Adj.

Having a sheen or glow;shining; bright; glorious;glossy.

eg. Lustrous beauty with timeless elegance, sapphires are a unique gift that can be treasured forever.

LEGERDEMAIN

 LEGERDEMAIN:

 ■ noun

Sleights of hand;
A trick or set of tricks performed by a juggler or magician so quickly and deftly that the manner of execution cannot be observed;
Skill in performing conjuring tricks.

eg.The banker's cunning legerdemain enabled him to steal from his customers for many years.

LAMENT

LAMENT: 

 ■ Verb
To express grief for or about; mourn;To regret deeply; deplore

■ noun
A feeling or an expression of grief; a lamentation.

 eg.We lamented the death of the child.

LARGESS

LARGESS:

 ■ noun

Liberality in bestowing gifts, especially in a lofty or condescending manner.

Money or gifts bestowed.
Generosity of spirit or attitude.

 eg.Bill Gates should be complimented for his largess in giving so much money to medical research.

LANCET

LANCET: 

 ■ noun

A surgical knife with a short, wide, pointed double-edged blade, used especially for making punctures and small incisions.

Also A lancet arch;A lancet window.

eg. The nurse used a lancet to extract just a drop of blood from the patient's finger.

LONGEVITY

LONGEVITY: 

■ noun

Long life; great duration of life;Length or duration of life.

Long duration or continuance, as in an occupation

eg. The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

LOQUACIOUS

LOQUACIOUS: 


 ■ Adj.
 Very talkative; garrulous;Full of trivial conversation.

 ■ noun.
 loquacity.

eg.I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

LAGOON

LAGOON: 

 ■ noun
A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs.

eg.The Maldives is an enchanted paradise on the equator, a necklace of tiny palm studded coral islands, surrounded by sparkling lagoons.

LITHE

LITHE:

■Adj.

Moving and bending with ease.Flexible and supple.Marked by effortless grace.

eg. Gymnasts must be quite lithe to do all of their routines.

MATRICULATE

MATRICULATE:

 ■ verb
To admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university.

■ noun

One who is admitted as a student to a college or university.

eg.To be granted matriculation in this university, one has to present a certificate of good moral character from previous school.

MEMENTO

MEMENTO:

 ■ noun

A reminder of the past; a keepsake.

 eg.I try to pick up a special memento from every place we visit on our trips.

MENIAL

 MENIAL:

 ■ Adj.
 Of or relating to work or a job regarded as servile;Of, relating to, or appropriate for a servant.

■ noun.

A servant, especially a domestic servant.

eg.There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.

MIRAGE

MIRAGE:

■ noun

An optical phenomenon that creates the illusion of water, often with inverted reflections of distant objects, and results from distortion of light by alternate layers of hot and cool air.

Something illusory or insubstantial.

eg. As they were driving, they saw a mirage that looked like water on the road ahead.

MISERLY

MISERLY:
■ Adj.
Greedy, stingy;Relating to one who stores riches selfishly.
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser; avaricious or penurious.

eg.The mayor had a reputation for being miserly with the city's money.

MISOGAMY

MISOGAMY:
■ noun
Hatred of marriage.

eg. Misogamy drives the plot. Marriage itself is seen as a series of ratty exchanges in which partners gnaw at past infidelities.

TORTUOUS

TORTUOUS: 
■Adj. 
Marked by repeated turns and bends; Not straightforward. 

eg.In a tortuous journey across to Lesotho, he reaches the final crossing, the river gorge which forms the frontier. 

MAELSTROM

 MAELSTROM:

 ■ noun 
A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence.
A violent or turbulent situation.



eg.The swirling hype, promises of opportunity and mandates for change have created a maelstrom of uncertainty.

MALEDICTION

MALEDICTION:

 ■ noun

The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)

eg. A malediction was pronounced against the town and ever since there has been no fresh water there.

MELEE

MELEE: 

 ■ noun
 Confused, hand-to-hand fighting.

eg.A melee broke out in front of the theater before the controversial film started.

MERCENARY

MERCENARY :

 ■ Adj.
 Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain;Hired for service in a foreign army.

■ noun
One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling;A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army.

eg. It seems very mercenary to charge your guests for their dinner and drinks.

METTLE

 METTLE:

■ noun

Courage and fortitude; spirit

eg.It takes a lot of mettle to run in the Boston Marathon.

MIASMA

MIASMA:

 ■ noun
A poisonous atmosphere formerly thought to rise from swamps and putrid matter and cause disease.A thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation.
A noxious atmosphere or influence .

eg.One does not argue or contend with the foul miasma that settles over stagnant water; one leaves it and climbs to a higher region, where the air is pure and the sunshine fair.

MISCREANT

MISCREANT:

■ noun

An evildoer; a villain;an infidel; a heretic.

eg. The miscreant was hauled before the judge to be sentenced for the crime.

MISSILE

MISSILE:

  ■ noun
An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile.

eg.If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

TACIT

TACIT:

■Adj. 

Implied by or inferred from actions or statements;Not spoken.

eg.Management has given its tacit approval to the plan.

TAINT

TAINT:

■ noun

The state of being contaminated.

■ Verb
To contaminate the reputation;To become or cause to become rotten;To make morally impure.


 eg.The cork industry have done a huge amount of work to find the causes of cork taint.

TILLER

TILLER:

■ noun
1.A horizontal bar fitted to the head of a boat's rudder post and used for steering.

2.One that tills land.
3.Shoot, especially one that sprouts from the base of a grass.


eg. Firstly, you can have a tiller installed in the place of the wheel.

TRAPPINGS

TRAPPINGS :

■ noun

Articles of dress or adornment, especially accessories.

Also,Stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse

 eg.The trappings of upper-class life are off-putting and sterile.

TYCOON

TYCOON: 

■ noun

 A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

eg.The real estate tycoon was never seen without his expensive car.

TUMULT

TUMULT:

 ■ noun
A disorderly commotion or disturbance
A tempestuous uprising; a riot. Agitation of the mind or emotions.

eg.The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.

TURBID

TURBID:

■ Adj.

Having sediment or foreign particles stirred up or suspended; muddy.

eg.In the UK, waters are often turbid and so obtaining a broad scale photograph is almost impossible.

JABBER

JABBER:

■ Verb

To talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly.

eg.How can someone jabber on for so many years and not really say anything?

JAUNT

JAUNT:

■ noun

 A short trip or excursion, usually for pleasure; an outing.

eg.We take many summer jaunts to the shore.

JETTISON

JETTISON:

■ Verb

To cast overboard or throw overboard;To discard (something) as unwanted or burdensome.

eg.Before landing on an aircraft carrier, planes jettison any remaining fuel.

JOCOSE

JOCOSE:

■Adj.
Given to joking; merry.Characterized by joking; humorous.

 eg.The jocose man soon had the guests laughing.

JUBILATION

JUBILATION: 

■noun

The act of rejoicing.A celebration or other expression of joy.

eg.My emotions went from depression to sheer jubilation within 5 minutes.  

JOSTLE

JOSTLE:

■Verb

To come into rough contact with while moving;To force by pushing or elbowing.A rough shove or push.

eg. As soon as the train stopped the crowd jostled its way through the doors.

ELYSIAN

ELYSIAN:

■ Adj.
Excellent, beautiful ,creative,blissful; delightful;like paradise.

eg.At the party we had an elysian meal.